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RSVP to the Third Literary Upstart Reading!

You are cordially invited to the third semi-final reading of Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction, The L Magazine‘s annual competitive reading series in which the city’s finest unknown writers read and compete for an enormous novelty check worth $250 and publication in our Summer Fiction Issue.

We’ve changed locations! Our third semi-final reading will take place at Spike Hill in Williamsburg (186 Bedford Ave.). Join us on Tuesday, May 21 from 7pm until 9pm. Click here to RSVP. We’ll be at powerHouse Books in DUMBO (37 Main St., Brooklyn). Take the L train to the Bedford stop, and we’ll see you there.

We’re still accepting submissions of previously unpublished stories of 1,300 words or fewer, so keep writing! Please submit your story by Tuesday, May 28. For submission rules and guidelines, click here.